Title :
100 GHz passive mode-locked laser based on nonlinear silicon microring resonator
Author :
Chi Yan Wong ; Tong, F.W. ; Zhenzhou Cheng ; Ke Xu ; Hon Ki Tsang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate a passive mode-locked erbium-doped fiber ring laser based on a nonlinear silicon microring resonator. By using filter-driven four-wave mixing, a stable mode-locked pulse train at 100 GHz was produced.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; erbium; fibre lasers; integrated optics; laser cavity resonators; laser frequency stability; laser mode locking; micro-optics; multiwave mixing; optical filters; silicon; Si; erbium-doped fiber ring laser; filter-driven four-wave mixing; frequency 100 GHz; nonlinear silicon microring resonator; passive mode-locked laser; stable mode-locked pulse train; Laser mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bellevue, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1506-8
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656619
